Penn State psychologists found that preschool teachers can unwillingly pass on gender stereotypes to their students, when they emphasize gender differences.It might seem a bit strange for this to happen nowadays, but this study concluded that when teachers make a difference between genders, preschool kids are more li... |
16 November 2010
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Indiana University researchers have recently concluded a thorough study on negative stereotypes, which revealed that this phenomenon causes significant repercussions in people they are addressed to. The team says subjecting people to relentless stereotyping can literally impair their ability to learn. For many years,... |
27 July 2010
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A new research evidences the fact that the stereotypes usually associated with the behavior of older siblings are true. The work shows that the eldest brother or sister in a family tends to be less cooperative, trusting, and reciprocating than other siblings. The foundations for this line of investigations, into the ... |
7 December 2009
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Far from saying that girls do not get math, a new scientific study actually shows that females have just the same amount of inclination towards understanding complex equations and fractions as males do. The paper proves that it's culture that prevents women from having about the same presence in the field of exa... |
2 June 2009
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Women's reactions to stereotypes have been documented in a number of scientific studies, and they have shown that females are very likely to experience the negative consequences of negative stereotypes, if they are simply made aware of them. With this knowledge in mind, Indiana University Department of Psycholog... |
4 May 2009
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According to a new scientific study, seniors who are in the habit of thinking that their memory will deteriorate with age are actually very likely to go through this. Researchers have determined the fact that only thinking about having a diminished memory can be sufficient enough of a reason for some elderly people t... |
22 April 2009
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The links that the human brain makes are, at times, very odd, and researchers have spent vast amounts of time studying them. One such class of interactions is that which occurs between a person's emotion and their identity. In a new survey, investigators from a consortium of universities and other research insti... |
15 April 2009
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Despite popular belief, recent scientific studies prove the fact that on-line games are less and less dominated by males, as the stereotype goes. Rather, more than 40 percent of players in popular games such as EVE, World of Warcraft, MU and others are females, the new results show. Gamers who spend more time on thei... |
23 December 2008
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